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What's new (heaps of things since 1.8.1):
http://www.pygame.org/whatsnew.shtml
Summary of changes:
- many, many fixes and improvements. The largest amount of changes has gone
into this release than any other pygame release.
- bug fixes for backwards compatibility issues introduced in pygame 1.8.x
series. old games like solarwolf and libraries like PGU work again.
- experimental *camera* webcam module (still in development).
- experimental midi module based on portmidi and pyportmidi (99% complete).
- experimental gfxdraw module based on SDL_gfx (including AA circles, textured
polygons and other goodness).
- python3, and python3.1 support mostly completed. Some modules still
remain to be completed - but mostly it's working.
- nokia mobile phone s60 support.
- improved OSX support (dropped pyobjc dependency, improved installer,
sysfont now works on OSX).
- pygame.examples + pygame.tests included with pygame. This makes testing
easier, and also makes learning pygame more fun and easy.
- cleanup of examples, and addition of new examples.
- new tools to aid in development of pygame itself, better compilation
documentation.
- py2app, and py2exe support improved.
Source code release (binaries at bottom of announcement):
http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.0release.tar.gz (2.2MB)
http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.0release.zip (2.0MB)
Compilation instructions for different platforms:
http://www.pygame.org/wiki/Compilation
See a list of examples...
python -c "import pygame.examples;help(pygame.examples)"
Run one of the 30 examples included...
python -m pygame.examples.aliens
You can do a self test of pygame with:
python -m pygame.tests (or on python2.6 do python -m
pygame.tests.__main__ )
The latest docs are bundled with pygame. To open them in your web browser
run:
python -m pygame.docs
Binary builds for win/mac from the "The Spectacularly Adequate Automated
Pygame Build Page".
OSX 10.4/10.5/10.6 universal(intel and ppc):
http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.0release-py2.6-macosx10.5.zip 10.3MB
http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.0release-py2.5-macosx10.5.zip 10.3MB
http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.0release-py2.4-macosx10.5.zip 10.3MB
Windows:
http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.0release.win32-py2.4.exe 3MB
http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.0release.win32-py2.5.exe 3MB
http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.0.win32-py2.5.msi 3MB
http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.0.win32-py2.6.msi 3MB
http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.0.win32-py3.1.msi 3MB
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